Racial Discrimination and Mass Incarceration:
An International and Comparative Perspective

A Discussion with British Member of Parliament David Lammy,
Criminal Reform Activist and Author

Mr. Lammy will be a guest of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center the first week of November, and we invite students to sign up for a lunch discussion with him on Thursday November 8 in Crown Room 95. He will discuss his current book, titled TRIBES, which draws on lessons from his visits to six countries and 12 cities around the world where he has observed how all these jurisdictions are grappling with racial disparities in their justice systems, especially the overrepresentation of ethnic minority young people in the youth justice system.

Mr. Lammy was born in North London, to Guyanese parents and grew up in Tottenham, which he now represents in the House of Commons. He was a scholarship student throughout his youth and gained degrees at the School of Law and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and an L.L.M at Harvard. After practicing as Barrister he was elected to Parliament in 2000 as a Labour candidate. He has become the major voice of criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom, and in 2016 Conservative British Prime Minster David Cameron appointed Mr. Lammy to write a major government report on race and punishment in the UK.

More about our guest here: https://www.davidlammy.co.uk/about-david

Please RSVP here: http://web.stanford.edu/~katrine8/davidlammy.fb